Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and
offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However,
constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to
cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design
constraints is an important factor to structural engineers.
Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimal techniques have
been applied to the design of optimal structures. While, many
practical engineering optimal problems are very complex and hard to
solve by traditional method. In the past few decades, swarm
intelligence algorithms, which were inspired by the social behaviour
of natural animals such as fish schooling and bird flocking, were
developed because they do not require conventional mathematical
assumptions and thus possess better global search abilities than the
traditional optimization algorithms and have attracted more and more
attention. These intelligent basedalgorithms are very suitable for
continuous and discrete design variable problems such as ready-made
structural members and have been vigorously applied to various
structural design problems and obtained good results. This book
gathers the authors’ latest research work related with particle
swarm optimizer algorithm and group search optimizer algorithm as well
as their application to structural optimal design. The readers can
understand the full spectrum of the algorithms and apply the
algorithms to their own research problems.
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ISBN
9783642205361
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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